RIP AirDisaster.Com
 

RIP AirDisaster.Com

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Dear AirDisaster.Com Forum members,

At about 3pm U.S. Pacific Time today, the web server that hosted the AirDisaster.Com forums suffered a catastrophic failure which rendered both
hard drives useless and irrecoverable. Unfortunately, one drive in this server contained the live forums database, and the other contained the daily
database backups.

With this in mind, I'm sorry to report that, effective immediately, the AirDisaster.Com Discussion Forums are closed permanently. These forums were
home to hundreds of thousands of posts, and to attempt to start from scratch at this point would be futile, in my opinion.

For those of you looking for a place to continue discussing aviation safety, we have introduced a new Aviation Safety Discussion Forum at our sister site,
JetPhotos.Net. While I know this isn't the ideal solution for many of you, I would still invite all of you to visit the JP.Net forums, sign up, and
participate!

On a personal note, to me, this is the end of an era. These forums were regarded as the most authoritative aviation safety forums on the internet,
for a period of almost 10 years. On top of that, they were home to many friendships, some rivalries, and spawned at least one successful marriage.
That, above all else, will be the legacy of these forums long after they're gone.

I'd like to thank each and every one of you who helped to make the forums as successful as they were, and would like to thank, especially, the
administrators, moderators, and industry forum hosts who devoted their free time to make this place the best it could possibly be.

I guess that's about it. I hope to see many of you over at the JetPhotos.Net forums, and to those of you who will no longer participate, the best to all
of you for a bright and prosperous future.

Last one out, hit the lights!

Chris Kilroy
Editor, AirDisaster.Com

- JetPhotos.Net Aviation Safety Discussion Forum
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As an IT professional I am shocked - why are you not able to restore from backup? ie... it sounds to me like there was no actual backups being done here. Backups to another drive on a system are not backups... At a minimum some form of tape backup is recommended.

As a long-time AirDisaster Forum member I am not at all surprised.

So long to all the characters, wannabe's, professionals and trolls. It's been a fine soap opera and I'll miss them all.

Torvalds said he posts anything important, and the web backs it up ....
 

http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://airdisaster.com

The Wayback Machine is not current, but not all lost it appears. I don't know the site well, but you should at least check to see how much is recoverable. Others who still have cached files may be able to fill in some of what's missed.

There's a lot in the Archive. Get it now ....
 

I've just been browsing the missing site thanks to the Internet Archive, photos and text and internal links mostly work.

Say 'thank you Wayback Machine ....' I'm sure they welcome donations.

Google will find them. And, good news, they have an offsite backup:


www.archive.org/ Internet Archive: Wayback Machine

http://archive.bibalex.org, the Internet archive at the New Library of Alexandria, Egypt, mirrors the Wayback Machine.
www.archive.org/web/web.php

While far from the many tragedies that this great website documented .. this is still a tragedy in it's own right that it is no more !

To any ADC'er. Bummer, it was fun while it lastet. See you around somewhere in Cyberspace or in real life.:(
Per

Edited to add. Thanks for the sympathy, pprune mods. I hope you'll never encounter a similar mishap.

Um, backup plan?
 

Then why not spend the paltry $500.00 US to buy a backup solution? http://www.pprune.org/forums/images/...s/badteeth.gif

What a loss. And what an embarrassment for the site admins. http://www.pprune.org/forums/images/.../eusa_wall.gif

....tap...tap...tap... Is this thing on?
 

AirDis sysops, are you proceeding with recovery of your site from the Internet Archive? Links provided above, verified good. Please advise.

Because if you don't, somebody else should.

Just goes to prove...no one learns from other disasters.